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People still enjoy mining, you know

Words: Jim Rossignol, PC Gamer UK
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This is a bit awkward. EVE Online Revelations, the expansion to EVE Online, is a constantly evolving MMO. We’re reviewing Revelations but it’s actually an ongoing series of patches; for now we can only review the first installment in the sequence.

Upsettingly, it hasn’t brought with it the major graphical overhaul, or any of the snazzy DirectX 10 stuff that CCP have been talking about during 2006. Nor has it fixed really hardcore problems like the sovereignty system used to capture player-owned stations. Without these things, the changes Revelations brings feel premature. I’d rather have waited for a massive installment some time in 2007.

What Revelations has done is to fix some significant problems that have been in EVE since the very beginning. The largest of these is "warp-distance." Since launch it has only been possible to arrive 15km from things, but now you can land right next to them. That might sound like a small change, but it’s probably the biggest since the game began. It’s as if bunny hopping was removed from Quake, only to be replaced with an entirely more efficient mode of leaping around.


 
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MHz045  - 8 months 12 days ago 
Eve online used to be a great MMOPG until CCP released their newest version: Eve Online Apocrypha.

What CCP (creaters of eve) did is they revamped the whole system and put in new graphics.
Plus added new features to game play such as wormholes and a new computer race call sleepers, which you fight to get the items needed for new t3 ships.

Downside?

Once again CCP has made their paying customer into beta testers.

On March 10 2009, the date of apocrypha release,

The EVE online forums have had massive complaints of players unable to download software, computer system crashes, not able to log in, skills that could take up years to acquire are missing, numerous sound and graphical bugs and among other list of issues too long to list here.

(apocrypha issues thread)

http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1018307

(apocrypha feedback thread)

http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1018311

On top of that, CCP has a very bad habit of not replying to the complaints on their forums to the point where they don't exist.

Overall, I give this game and CCP a 2 out of ten 10.
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Eve Online: Revelations
Eve Online: Revelations

Genre: Role Playing
Release date: Nov 28, 2006
Published by: Vivendi
Developed by: CCP,Crowd Control Productions
Multiplayer Modes:
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150 player
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